Scapegoating Emergency Room Users

Scapegoating Emergency Room Users

Emergency rooms can be one of the most expensive places to get health care, and there’s broad agreement that keeping people out of them saves money. But there are also a lot of popular misconceptions about who uses emergency rooms and why. In Denver today, the American College of Emergency Physicians is releasing new findings about frequent ER users - seven studies in all, from Virginia, Wisconsin and San Diego. Here to share the results with host Ryan Warner is Dr. Robert O’Connor, who participated in the research.